| Record Number |
821580 |
| ISBN |
9781451621174 (hardback) |
| Author |
Heller, Joseph author. |
| Title |
Catch-22 / Joseph Heller ; introduction by Christopher Buckley. |
| Edition |
50th Anniversary edition |
| Publisher/Date |
New York : Simon & Schuster, 2011. |
| ©1989 |
| Pagination etc. |
524 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm |
| Contents note |
Sequel: Closing time. |
| Catch-22 -- History, context, and criticism / edited by Jonathan R. Eller. Part 1: The story of Catch-22. 'The story of Catch-22" / by Jonathan R. Eller ; "Reading in Catch-22" / by Joseph Heller ; "Preface to the 1994 edition of Catch-22" / by Joseph Heller -- Part 2: Other voices. "The logic of survival in a lunatic world" / by Robert Brustein ; "The catch" / by Nelson Algren ; "There's always a catch, especially 22" / by Studs Terkel ; "Here's greatness -- in satire" / by Philip Toynbee ; A excerpt from "Some children of the goddess -- Norman Mailer vs. nine writers" / by Norman Mailer ; An excerpt from Bright book of life / by Alfred Kazin ; "The loony horror of it all -- Catch-22 turns 25" ; "An introduction" / by Anthony Burgess ; "Joseph Heller" / by Christopher Hitchens. |
| Summary Note |
Set in the closing months of World War II in an American bomber squadron off the coast of Italy, Catch-22 is the story of a bombardier named Yossarian who is frantic and furious because thousands of people he has never even met keep trying to kill him. |
| Subject |
World War, 1939-1945 -- Aerial operations, American -- Fiction |
| Bombardiers -- Psychology -- Fiction |
| Interpersonal relations -- Fiction |
| War stories, American |
| World War, 1939-1945 -- Fiction |
| Satirical literature. |
| War fiction. |
| Added Author |
Buckley, Christopher, 1952- author of introduction, etc. |
| Shelf Location |
F HELL |
